Thanks girls! I appreciate your nice comments.

Sew cute!!! I love little bags and yours is so different than I've ever seen.

Thanks heather!

wow awesome bag , great job.

Just curious, how do you put the inner lining and outer pieces together with the bottom so all the batting and fabric seam allowance is not showing? Can you tell I don't do anything but flat quilts? I should have paid more attention to 3-D projects in high school LoL. That was like 100 years ago though. Thanks!!!

Handmade gifts are always the best!! Love the pattern..

Lovely idea, great gift idea.

Hi quiltingbuddy,

It is all in the pressing! When you are finished sewing them together and turn it to the outside press with a dry iron with a hot shot of steam to set it in place. I use a good sized pressing ham that has the curved edges. With the curved inside lining flap up facing you, You then make sure the seams are favored to the back side and give it a shot of steam, hold a second to set it, and then advance to the next area. Continue around in this manner and then the underneath fabric is "favored " to the back of the flap edge. Then sew the outline stitch around the top edge to finish. Does that make sense?

I might add that if you carefully trim away the batting from the seam allowance before you turn the bag, there is less batting to contend with.

Wow you've got it down, and it shows! Your bags are both sooooo beautiful! Thanks for the info. Now if I could figure out the ham thing (which must be the trick to the 3-D part of it all) then I could try to be a bag lady too.

I think they would be great for my friends for when we tote our journals and supplies to our weekly meetings. We bring our IPods, pens, notebooks/notecards and sometimes other items. What a wonderful gift idea you have going!
Please keep posting them as you finish each one ok?

This is very pretty !